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Following the female line, by Margaret Pearce, published December 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 8, article, pp.382-383) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508992] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A narrative history of the female ancestors of Ellen Barnes who married William Thomas in Brighton on 3 March 1866.

Mystery solved!, by Margaret Pearce, published June 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 6, article, p.293) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508973] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thanks to the wonders of this journal I have found the answer to my mystery postcard as depicted in 'Picture Gallery' in the March issue. I had several suggestions from members and thank you for those, but the mystery has been solved by Dr Janet Pennington, the Steyning and Wiston historian. The 'Home Coming' arch was for Charles GORING of Wiston House and his bride Beatrice Gabrielle Mary ALLEYNE. The entwined initials, GA, CG and BA above the arch establish this. The view shows Wiston Park with the South Downs and Chanctonbury Ring in the background.

Parchment makers and leather dressers, by Margaret Pearce, published September 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 7, article, pp.354-357) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508974] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The FEATHERSTONHAUGH family have always been leather dressers or parchment makers, starting with Matthew (my great-great-great-great-grandfather) in 1745 in Newcastle upon Tyne. His son Matthew was born in 1778 in Newcastle and married Sarah FOSSEY in 1802 by which time he was living and working as a leather dresser/parchment maker in Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire. Matthew and Sarah had nine children and my great-greatgrandfather George was born in 1803 and continued in the same trade, and after his marriage to Rebecca INGRAM in 1824 in Newport Pagnell, he moved to Wilby in Northamptonshire where six of his eight children were born. Still working as a parchment maker he then moved to Irthlingborough in Northamptonshire around 1844 where my great-grandfather Thomas was born on 12 March 1844. Thomas married his first wife Louisa BARWICK in 1866 and on the 1871 census was listed as a widower/parchment maker living in Hitchin in Hertfordshire with his son George aged four and a 58-year-old housekeeper. Louisa had died aged 25 in 1870 and on the 1871 census their other son, William aged one, was being looked after by Louisa's parents, Thomas and Dinah BARWICK.
Thomas must have decided to move to Staplefield in Sussex as sometime between 1871 and 1874 he had met and married Emily JENNINGS (his second wife) on Christmas Day 1874.